sf wrote:

>
> > It is Wednesday night at 10:30. One pumpkin pie and one apple pie have
> > come out of the oven and cooled off. We know we need to refrigerate the
> > pumpkin one, but what about the apple? Does the crust get soggy in the
> > fridge? Is there an advantage to leaving it out? After the thread
> > about going overboard in the sanitation department, I'm reluctant to ask
> > the question, but I honestly don't know. What's the common sense answer?
> >
> You can leave the apple pie out with no problem; but I'd refrigerate
> the pumpkin pie mainly because I like eating it nice and cold. Food
> for thought: pumpkin pie has egg in it...

Pumpkin pies sit out on the counter in bakeries and grocery stores for days
without a problem.